十面埋伏
Shí miàn Mái fú
Pinyin
Definition
十面埋伏
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- Ambush from Ten Sides (pipa solo piece)
- House of Flying Daggers (2004 movie by Zhang Yimou 張藝謀|张艺谋[Zhāng Yì móu])
Character Decomposition
Idioms (20)
一五一十
- 1 lit. count by fives and tens (idiom); to narrate systematically and in full detail
一传十,十传百
- 1 news pass quickly from mouth to mouth (idiom)
- 2 an infectious disease spreads quickly (old meaning)
一年被蛇咬十年怕井绳
- 1 bitten by a snake in one year, fears the well rope for ten years (idiom); once bitten twice shy
一暴十寒
- 1 one day's sun, ten days' frost (idiom, from Mencius); fig. to work for a bit then skimp
- 2 sporadic effort
- 3 short attention span
一曝十寒
- 1 one day's sun, ten days' frost (idiom, from Mencius); fig. to work for a bit then skimp
- 2 sporadic effort
- 3 lack of sticking power
- 4 short attention span
Sample Sentences
视觉效果好,演员好,片子就一定好看吗?我觉得现在国产大片的最大问题就是没有精彩的内容。张艺谋的《英雄》、《十面埋伏》、陈凯歌的《无极》、还有前一阵冯小刚的《夜宴》,都是请了大牌明星来演,场景、服装、道具也是美轮美奂,武打动作和电脑特技更是看得人眼花缭乱。可是光视觉效果好,故事情节和对白设计却漏洞百出,所以观众才不叫好。